Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235130 
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2004
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[Editor:] Tungodden, Bertil [Editor:] Stern, Nick [Editor:] Kolstad, Ivar [Title:] Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, Europe 2003 : Toward Pro-Poor Policies - Aid, Institutions, and Globalization [Publisher:] World Bank, Oxford University Press [Place:] Washington, Oxford [Year:] 2004 [Pages:] 335-345
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World Bank, Oxford University Press, Washington, Oxford
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When productivity is fostered by an individual’s own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. A strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country raises both the level of human capital formed by optimizing individuals in the home country and the average level of human capital of non-migrants in the country. Conditions are provided under which the welfare of all workers is higher with migration than in its absence. A well-controlled, restrictive migration policy can enhance welfare and nudge the economy toward the social optimum.
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